David Walker and Benja Barker (Alter Egos Society, Trek in the Park) join the show today to discuss awesome things: like Wonder Northwest, a full-on Pop-Culture Convention happening this weekend; Choose Your Own Adventure stories, like the ones where a soapbox derby ends with you racing with Dinosaurs before a giant eagle carries you off; and the secret superhero alter-egos of Cort and Bobby – The Undie-Dundie Man and Nitey-Nite. But other, less awesome things get discussed as well. In fact, childhood trauma is discussed: The child who had trauma slapped into – and a tooth slapped out of – his head in a Washington Movie Theater. The child who got buzzed on America’s Got Talent by Howard Stern and started crying in front of a national audience, and two different tales of Laundromat horror, causing us to ask the question: WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH PARENTS TODAY? All that, and both David AND Benja are stepping back behind the directors chair soon? Find out more about their upcoming projects inside!
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Regarding the movie slapping incident: I find myself wanting to know what movie this guy was seeing when it happened. It couldn’t have been the Avengers, because the incident happened on April 11. Maybe the Hunger Games?
That wouldn’t surprise me. If the mother was that detached with her control of the kids, I wouldn’t put it past her to take a 10-year-old to that film.
That being said, if some guy knocked a tooth out of my son’s mouth, noisy or not, I would have had words with him. And by “have words with” I mean “beat the shit out of”.
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Man-charged-with-slapping-loud-kid-in-Kent-theater-3574696.php
Unless someone else slapped a child in a movie theater recently, looks like it was Titanic 3D and at 10:40 pm which is annoying to have such young kids at a late movie to begin with. Though now he has to say he was at Titanic in his explanation of why he’s in jail.
I saw Avengers in Times Square opening weekend at 11:00 Am, lots of families. I expected to hear and see this shit. Sure enough a few seats away this kid was playing with a bright cellphone the whole movie, shining it right in my face. My friend asked her nicely to turn the phone off and the parents flipped out on us threatening us and everything. At the end of the movie her father gets right in my friend’s face and says “she has autism”. My friend, who teaches special ed kids in the Bronx, explained that perhaps a movie is not the best place to take a child who can’t pay attention. The man acted as though he were going to punch my friend in the face when my friend said “are you really going to hit someone in a movie theater in front of your autistic child?” The guy backed down after that and the family left but not without telling us what assholes we were. You never know how people are going to react.
What a FUCKED story. Jesus.
I had an inconsiderate family at Avengers as well, but I voiced my displeasure at their inability to control their squalling child towards the PARENTS, who responded by leaving shortly afterwards. I talked about it a little on Ham-Fisted Radio, but it did remind me that, for all our complaining/griping about audience ettiquette, this kind of stuff has been happening at theaters for literally AS LONG as I can remember.
Going after the kid is a terrible idea, Just fucking rat their whole family out. I don’t care if that sounds juvenile, but if shit gets bad, just either report them, or straight up get a refund.
Titanic 3D isn’t worth an assault charge.